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Coding Newswire
September, 2005
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IV
Vitamin C Seen as Cancer Fighter
Vitamin
C (ascorbate) delivered to the bloodstream in high concentrations
could be a potent killer of cancer cells, especially some lymphomas,
suggested researchers at the National Institutes of Health here.
In an
in vitro study designed to mimic clinical intravenous
delivery of ascorbate, 20 mM of the substance killed five of 10
cancer cell lines, while leaving four normal cell lines intact,
reported Mark Levine, M.D., of the National Institute for Diabetes
and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and colleagues.
A
high-ranking Food and Drug Administration official resigned
Wednesday in protest over the agency's refusal to allow
over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception.
Susan
Wood, director of FDA's Office of Women's Health, announced her
resignation in an e-mail to colleagues at the agency. The e-mail was
released by contraception advocates.
The
FDA last Friday postponed indefinitely its decision on whether to
allow the morning-after pill, called Plan B, to be sold without a
prescription. The agency said it was safe for adults to use without
a doctor's guidance but was unable to decide how to keep it out of
the hands of young teenagers without a prescription -- a decision
contrary to the advice of its own scientific advisers.
Tests
of nuclear bombs conducted in the 1950s have had an unexpected
benefit for forensic scientists.
A
permanent record of the fallout from above-ground tests is embedded
in tooth enamel and allows scientists to estimate the age of a
person at the time of death more precisely.
Jonas
Frisen, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, who developed the
method, said it has already been used to help identify people who
died in the Indian Ocean tsunami last year.
Learn
more about this interesting discovery, as well as it's practical
applications by visiting the MNSNBC
website.
Breast
Milk Richer in Fat, Energy After One Year
A
new study shows that milk from mothers who have been breastfeeding
their infants for more than a year is richer in fat and energy than
milk from moms who have been breastfeeding for just a few months.
Find
out more about the specifics of this study at MSNBC
News.
Rate
of Increase in Health Care Costs Dips
After
four years of double-digit increases, premiums for employer-provided
health insurance in the U.S. rose only 9.2 percent in 2005, according
to the annual survey released Wednesday by the Kaiser Family
Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust.
"The
good news is the rate of increase in healt
h
care costs is down," said Kaiser Foundation President Drew
Altman. "The bad news is that's the only good news."
For
example, he said, even that slower rate of increase still has health
insurance premiums rising more than twice as fast as overall
inflation, and more than three times faster than workers' wages.
As
many as 97 million influenza shots will be available in the U.S.
market for the upcoming flu season starting in October, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
It
said with the addition of GlaxoSmithKline as a supplier, there were
four companies providing vaccines to the United States, but some
prioritization of who gets the shots will still be required.
New
government tests show dangerous amounts of sewage-related bacteria and
lead from unknown sources in the floodwaters in New Orleans, and high
levels of chemicals such as hexavalent chromium, used in industrial
plating, and arsenic, used in treating wood.
Environmental
Protection Agency officials are taking samples daily at sites
around New Orleans for biological pathogens and more than 100 chemical
pollutants, including pesticides, metals and industrial chemicals.
Vitamin
C (ascorbate) delivered to the bloodstream in high concentrations
could be a potent killer of cancer cells, especially some lymphomas,
suggested researchers at the National Institutes of Health here.
A
high-ranking Food and Drug Administration official resigned
Wednesday in protest over the agency's refusal to allow
over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception.
A
new study shows that milk from mothers who have been breastfeeding
their infants for more than a year is richer in fat and energy than
milk from moms who have been breastfeeding for just a few months.
After
four years of double-digit increases, premiums for employer-provided
health insurance in the U.S. rose only 9.2 percent in 2005, according
to the annual survey released Wednesday by the Kaiser Family
Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust.